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Papers of Rudolf Majut, 1944-1962, comprising:
Annotated typescripts of works by Rudolf Majut, including broadcast Majut made for Austrian Radio in 1953, and of his controversial poem about the child victims of the Nazi death camps, 'Das Lied von den Schuhen' (enthusiastically praised by Thomas Mann); typescripts of poetry and prose by his brother Hans Majut (1892-1937), who suffered persecution under the Nazi regime for being of Jewish descent, despite being a protestant Christian like his brother.
Correspondence, 1918-1966: correspondents include Jethro Bithell (1878-1962), head of the Department of German at Birkbeck College London; Rudolf Liechtenhan, Rt Rev George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Fritz Bergemann, Alfred Bergmann, Theodor Bohner; Gustav Ehrismann, Bernt von Heiseler, Max Hermann, Thomas Mann, Rudolf Odebrecht, Wolfgang Stammler, Karl Viëtor and Günther Weydt.